10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This October

Claire Chambless, “Ghost Complex IV” (2025) (photo courtesy the artist and Morán Morán)

Claire Chambless’s haunting dollhouses eschew youthful innocence, instead conveying psychological complexity and bodily decay. Composed of wood, resin, latex, and synthetic hydroxyapatite — a material that mimics bone — her gothic dwellings seem to take on a life of their own, as their organic forms bulge, slump, and branch off into new appendages. Incorporating found objects into her built environments, Chambless conjures up worlds of dark fantasy, even as the interior spaces of her abodes harbor opaque secrets.

Morán Morán, 641 North Western Avenue, East Hollywood, Los Angeles, through October 25